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TIL The US Government Secretly Contaminated U.S. Cities in the 1950s-1960s

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4XnbJ TIL Screenwriter Shane Black's original title for The Last Boy Scout was Die Hard, but Producer Joel Silver asked if he could use the title for a movie he was working on called Nothing Lasts Forever. Black agreed and Nothing Last Forever became Die Hard and Die Hard became The Last Boy Scout
6958Y TIL about Abell 39, one of the largest known spheres with a radius of 1.3 lightyears
pLaG TIL that when the Titanic was found in 1985, the famous Grand Staircase (appearing in many films of the sinking) was missing. During the filming of the 1997 movie, the replica was torn out by the water when the set was flooded; the real staircase was likely ripped out of the ship in the same way.
N7keJ TIL Hollywood Road is the second oldest street in Hong Kong, built at the founding of the colony in 1841. It arose as a place where foreign traders and merchants would sell artefacts they “collected” in mainland China before making their way towards Europe
6wWQ TIL NFL teams did not come to the field for the National Anthem until 2009, when the Defense Department started to pay teams to do so to promote patriotism.